CANADA FOR OUR BUTTER.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2005, 12 March 1914, Page 8

CANADA FOR OUR BUTTER.

''TREMENDOUS MARKET" WAITING. •■.:. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Auckland, March 11. Mr. William Goodfollow, . managing director of tho Waikato Co-operative l)airy Company, who has jn'st returned [from an •extensive- tour of Western America, states that Western Canada offers a. tremendous market for Now Zealand-dairy produce, which is rapidly coming into favour.everywhere.' Largo .numbers of tradors, howover . "fako" New Zealand butter by adding from ton to fifteen per. cent, of moisture to it, and causing a corresponding depreciation in value. Mr. Goodfollow himself and a number of merchants to whom he talked in America is emphatically.of tho opinion that the New. Zealand Government should.station an. official in Western Canada to protect tno interostg.of■ New, Zealand 'dairy, farmers and exporters,' and stir up tho Canadian Government to prosecute those who now so flagrantly transgress the Canadian regulations. While Mr. Goodfollow was in. Canada, tho manager of Byron Bay, Company— tho largest dairying enterprise in Now (•South Wales,' and in the Southern engaged on a similar tour, and he publicly declared that next season an attempt will bo mado.to: establish Australasian butter in the Canadian market. Very little dairy produce from the Commonwealth lias yet been shipped to Canada, but efforts ore being made to. Becuro a reciprocal tariff,' so;,th'at Australia, will, be able to'trade with Canada on terms as favourable as tuosocnjoyeil iby New. Zealand.: